Re: Designer Fragrances With Fig ?

Carbone de Balmain & Absynthe For Men by Cristian Lacroix both have black fig as notes. Both are very nice IMO and inexpensive.

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Re: Designer Fragrances With Fig ?

What about good ol' Varvatos original? Tamarind, fig and leather...good stuff! Also one that can be found dirt cheap on ebay is Avon's Unscripted. Patrick Dempsey's scent from them...a very nice sweet/spicey frag. Starts with fig and pepper and has a vetiver/woody drydown.

edit-looks like Avon has another mens scent which is mostly just sweet fig from the reviews. It's called Aromadisiac for Him, never smelt this one so can't vouch for it though.

Re: Designer Fragrances With Fig ?

Re: Designer Fragrances With Fig ?

Huge thanks to everyone for your help !!!
I have, (I hope) an interesting story that caused my rekindled and about-turn interest in fig...
When Dune, (women's) was released I was fascinated and captivated by it. A perfume that captured an early morning - (equally) evening atmosphere of sand dunes next to the ocean. As a sea-side romantacist I instantly fell in love.
Then came Dune pour Homme and I was a little shocked and disappointed. I found the fig note very dominant and to me the perfume beared no resemblance to the Dune I knew. So I somehow gave Dune pour Homme an instant dismissal. Until recently....
At the Sunday fleamarket I found a seller with miniature perfume flacons. I was very interested in a mini pure perfume of Panthere, but he wanted to sell his collection of perfumes as a whole, not individually. I agreed and bought 20+ minis. Amongst them was an almost empty mini of Dune pour Homme.
The cap was broken, so most of the perfume had evaporated. Literally to "get rid" of the flacon I applied the last few drops of DPH. Wow. What an experience. The thick oily residue that remained in the flacon had, (presumebly) transformed itself into an "extrait" form of DPH. The next 12 hours, (possibly with the help of a Provencal mistral) turned this into a magical 12 hours. Although I will never be able to find or create a Dune pour Homme extrait ever again, I will probably be contented with the usual edt, (if it has not been reformulated ?? !) This was for me the ultimate "fig experience" Possibly, for me a close second would be the Farragamo mens fragrance containing fig.
I will try your recommendations. Thanks again.

Re: Designer Fragrances With Fig ?

I second womanity for something really novel and interesting (I'd call it focaccia with figs -something we eat in italy). I tried the cuir flanker only once, and sadly I didn't get leather (which would have been a great idea). But I didn't smell carefully.

for something fresh, Jardin sur le nil has a sort of fig leaf note (apparently, unripe mango, but not that one can make much difference).

Re: Designer Fragrances With Fig ?

Perhaps also Globe by Rochas, since it ticks many boxes at once: masculine, discontinued (thus most quite likely available only as vintage), designer, quite classic by now (right down to the quite catchy, uniquely creative and classy bottle design).